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[cormack12]

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-.../bella-ramsey-gender-last-of-us-b2262109.html

 

[Ulysses 31]

 

[Oberstein]

Oh God, this bullshit again... Nobodycares.gif

 

[GnomeChimpsky]

Overprivileged Hollywood people spouting nonsense, I'm shocked.

 

[FunkMiller]

How very fashionable of her.

 

[funkygunther]

of course

 

[AJUMP23]

We live in the dumbest timeline.

 

[Sirolf]

Oh for fuck’s sake… All of this is so ridiculous..
I’m sincerely happy to live here in Europe (France),these lunatics are here but very sparse They have not the absolute power they have over the atlantic.

 

[daffyduck]

 

[SJRB]

 

[Certinty]

What the fuck, she’s 19? I thought she was like 12.

 

[octiny]

 

[winjer]

Seems like some stunt to promote her career...

 

[Winter John]

Wake up sheeple! Gender is a concept invented by toilet makers to sell more bathrooms! Shampoo/razor/fashion companies. They're all in on it.

 

[nkarafo]

And what bathrooms and locker rooms do you use little girl?

 

[John Bilbo]

Beware your gaze into society, for the society holds its gaze into you

Society is were we truly live -George Seinfeld

 

[Jennings]

Okay, thanks for keeping us in the loop. It's important that an audience know how to properly acknowledge a performer in discussion, and threads like this one go a long way towards helping us stay respectful and precise.

 

[Fake]

I remember people using the term 'fluid' for talking about games performance on PS360 era.

 

[crazepharmacist]

So she’s a girl one day and a boy the next. Or is she a girl one hour and a boy the next? How often does she change genders? Are you only allowed so many within a certain period of time? There should be rules on this or otherwise people may get confused.

Oh wait, everyone already is confused because these people live in their own warped realties.

 

[MudoSkills]

I'm not sure both parts of that headline can be true.

 

[Lunarorbit]

How very fashionable of her.

Very good way to put it. I guess that this thought process is common in younger people. Interesting reactions the young have to labels.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

She does lack feminine features so....

 

[Astral Dog]

Not impressed, only two genres???gurl what year is it

 

[kanjobazooie]

If she herself doesn't care, why would we?

 

[feynoob]

What the fuck, she’s 19? I thought she was like 12.

The highschool hollywood is real.

 

[JimmyF]

Well great, now make me a sandwich.

 

[ANDS]

That actual article this is referencing is behind a paywall, however: she got asked a question and she answered. Not sure why folks are framing this as some unprompted "This is what I believe! Screeeeech!" statement. What I hear from this quote - that everyone should be cheering her for - is. . ."I haven't thought about it and don't give a fuck."

 

[Uhtred]

I’m sure she was coached to say this to bring attention to the diversity of the show.

 

[Astral Dog]

That actual article this is referencing is behind a paywall, however: she got asked a question and she answered. Not sure why folks are framing this as some unprompted "This is what I believe! Screeeeech!" statement. What I hear from this quote - that everyone should be cheering her for - is. . ."I haven't thought about it and don't give a fuck."

tbh this thread is more fun the way it is

 

[Salz01]

I already thought she looked like a boy.

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

That's great news. In other news I forgot to buy saté sauce.

Alas I'm not completely sauce fluid

 

[BaneIsPain]

Can they upgrade from fluid to something else later on? This is RPG, right?

 

[Mistake]

By “a bit exciting” means she probably gets her rocks off crossdressing or pegging

 

[ahtlas7]

Wow! She is shocking! Shocking, I tells ya!

 

[ahtlas7]

Can they upgrade from fluid to something else later on? This is RPG, right?

next evolution to plasma then pure energy

 

[Hayabusa83]

Probably because she is ugly as fuck.

 

[ReBurn]

Things nobody cares about for $2,000, Alex. Why do people care so much about other peoples' gender.

 

[SiteSeer]

tis not truly exciting until you’re called an ‘it’.

 

[Winter John]

That actual article this is referencing is behind a paywall, however: she got asked a question and she answered. Not sure why folks are framing this as some unprompted "This is what I believe! Screeeeech!" statement. What I hear from this quote - that everyone should be cheering her for - is. . ."I haven't thought about it and don't give a fuck."

It's what I was thinking. The absolute state of these culture war morons acting like she threw a parade down Manhattan. When all that happened was the NYT asked her and she said she didn't care.

 

[analog_future]

So many triggered snowflakes in this thread, wow

 

[ANDS]

I’m she was coached to say this to bring attention to the diversity of the show.

Oh boy. For anyone curious here is the entirety of the context of this:

Last month, “Catherine Called Birdy” earned Ramsey a Critics Choice Award nomination for best young actor/actress. (The awards will be handed out on Sunday night.) The non-gender-specific category was pleasing for a person who has long reckoned with gender identity — as a child, Ramsey loved being mistaken for a boy by strangers, she said.

“I guess my gender has always been very fluid,” she said. “Someone would call me ‘she’ or ‘her’ and I wouldn’t think about it, but I knew that if someone called me ‘he’ it was a bit exciting.”

Now, if she sees “nonbinary” as an option on a form, she will tick it. “I’m very much just a person,” she said. “Being gendered isn’t something that I particularly like, but in terms of pronouns, I really couldn’t care less.”

Which is a perfectly fine response to someone unprompted asking you a personal question that has nothing to do with you promoting what you hope is your big break after your little break in a former big name project (where you went out like a boss). This has big "I don't really think about it, why are you asking me this, just call me Bella" energy all over it, but of course it'll be spun by both sides to meet some narrative.

. . .like, at no point does she actual say she is gender fluid as a matter of fact (and the author doesn't assign this to her either because of the - shock - pronouns used in the article), simply that people have always been curious about her gender.

 

[Rentahamster]

"in terms of pronouns I couldn't really care less"

Why the derision? Isn't that the same opinion the anti-woke crowd holds too? "I don't care about pronouns".

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Thank god. I was getting worried for a minute there.

 

[OZ9000]

 

[Punished Miku]

Can they upgrade from fluid to something else later on? This is RPG, right?

Gas

 

[Jsisto]

My favorite thing about modern humanity is that we think we're such unique beings that we invent new problems like this, yet also one natural disaster away from murdering each other in the streets over a can of chef boyardee.

 

[thefool]

Nonsense.

 

[March Climber]

That actual article this is referencing is behind a paywall, however: she got asked a question and she answered. Not sure why folks are framing this as some unprompted "This is what I believe! Screeeeech!" statement. What I hear from this quote - that everyone should be cheering her for - is. . ."I haven't thought about it and don't give a fuck."

This thread was probably created to let people vent their frustrations about the topic of gender or to weed out the edgier trolls here.

This is non-news.

 

[John Bilbo]

Gas

I knew it was you

 

[AlteredForms]